Started with one of these minus the tender:
Some mindless violence with a razorsaw and some styrene and a good rifle thru the parts boxes
Add one MDC Big Hustler cab:
Starting to get somewhere
Have fun with your trains
well done!
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Ran into a small issue, the cab makes this thing tail heavy as hell, any power applied now pops a wheelie and derails ..oops!
Guess I will be filling the smokebox with birdshot and epoxy, if worse comes to worse I can also fill the tank with birdshot as well.
But it looks good painted!
Good news is filling the smokebox with lead birdshot and epoxy seams to have fixed the wheelie problem, but I still suspect I need to add more weight into the tank to help it pull anything and if I want to add an engineer figure. replacing the pilot beam with one filled with shot was one suggestion I might try, otherwise its the tank that will get birdshot added.
Next major issue is adding couplers, the front not so worried about but the rear is definitively going to have to be swing mounted.
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